Etiket: Indies
Many municipalities do not remove protest flags during the Indies commemoration | NOW
Municipalities have been struggling with protest flags for weeks: should they go or not? The municipality of Zwolle now believes that the flags should be removed at least on Monday…
Thousands of veterans applauded in The Hague: ‘When we returned from the Indies, we were verbally abused’ | Inland
Premium The best of De Telegraaf Through Fred Plum Updated 11 min ago12 min ago in INTERIOR The 95-year-old veteran Frank Bouwens from Valkenswaard. THE HAGUE – A big round…
Strong criticism of the Indies research: ‘Rutte hurts us extremely’ Inland
In February, dozens of researchers presented their study into the independence war in Indonesia between 1945 and 1950. The main conclusion is that there was ‘structural excessive violence’ by Dutch…
Founder of the Indies monument in Emmen addresses those present for the last time
It was an emotional day for Dutch East Indies veteran Ger Achterhof from Emmen. During the thirtieth commemoration of the Southeast Drenthe victims, who fell in present-day Indonesia and New…
War crimes in ‘our Indies’? Jan Wolkers said it 75 years ago
The first volumes of a total of twelve scientific publications about the colonial war in Indonesia are now available for purchase. The evidence of the extreme violence of the Dutch…
‘Excessive violence in the Dutch East Indies’ | Inland
This is the main conclusion of the Decolonization Study to be presented on Thursday. With this, the historians working for three leading institutes are challenging the official government position since…
The water-cold reception of people from the ‘lost’ Indies
Suddenly Wouter Muller is in front of the camera with clenched fists. Initially, the 73-year-old musician spoke thoughtfully about his parents, who came to the Netherlands when Indonesian independence was…
Between the Indies and Indonesia: with ‘merdeka’ for Cisca (95) the ‘bersiap’ for Godfried (83) started | Inland
It is Friday, August 17, 1945, 10 o’clock in the morning. On the veranda of his home in Jakarta, Soekarno reads a few historical sentences from a note. ‘We, the…
The Hague museum wants to show how the Dutch East Indies lives on
The Hague museum wants to show how the Dutch East Indies lives on The exhibition OUR LAND – Decolonization, generations, stories opens in Museum Sophiahof in The Hague on Friday.…